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Kumi Naidoo

"The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a generation chance to change the world for good, to avert catastrophic climate change. In the end they produced a poor deal full of loopholes big enough to fly Air Force One through."

Source : "Meaningful Agreement: Obama Says ‘A First Step’ Climate Deal Has Been Reached In Copenhagen" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Kumi Naidoo

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“The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.”
“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”
“Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.”
“Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.523, New Directions Publishing
“In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much.”
“Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.”
“I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.”
“I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.”

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